This Alabama restaurant cooks hot dogs in a treehouse and sends them down to customers in a basket

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A new restaurant in a treehouse called Tree Dogs just opened in Stevenson, Alabama, specializing in hot dogs.

You place your order at the base of a tree, a basket brings it up to a treehouse, and that same basket is then sent back down filled with hot dogs.

If the business does well, the owners want to try making it a full-service concept.

It's the Swiss Family Robinson meets Nathan's. Tree Dogs is a unique restaurant concept in Stevenson, Alabama, where hot dogs (their specialty) are prepared in a treehouse and sent down in a basket to hungry customers waiting below.

As the original AL.com story reports, Tree Dogs is brand-new to the neighborhood. The treehouse sits in what looks like a giant backyard, which is dotted with a tall tin man, a mish-mosh of backyard furniture, and bizarre folk art.

The hot dogs themselves are fairly cheap: only $2 for one dog with any toppings you want, and an extra 25 cents to make it a chili dog.

Customers place their order with a cashier at the base of the tree, who sends it up to the waiting chefs above in a basket. Chefs then prepare your hot dogs in the treehouse (it's a fully-stocked kitchen), and send your hot dogs back down in the same basket.